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Question answering over knowledge bases (KBQA) has become a popular approach to help users extract information from knowledge bases. Although several systems exist, choosing one suitable for a particular application scenario is difficult.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Khiem Vinh Tran , Hao Phu Phan , Khang Nguyen Duc Quach , Ngan Luu-Thuy Nguyen , Jun Jo , Thanh Tam Nguyen

We analyze knowledge-based visual question answering, for which given a question, the models need to ground it into the visual modality and retrieve the relevant knowledge from a given large knowledge base (KB) to be able to answer. Our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Elham J. Barezi , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Knowledge Bases (KBs) play a key role in various applications. As two representative KB-related tasks, knowledge base completion (KBC) and knowledge base question answering (KBQA) are closely related and inherently complementary with each…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yinan Liu , Dongying Lin , Sigang Luo , Xiaochun Yang , Bin Wang

Knowledge base question answering (KBQA) aims to answer user questions in natural language using rich human knowledge stored in large KBs. As current KBQA methods struggle with unseen knowledge base elements at test time,we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Shengxiang Gao , Jey Han Lau , Jianzhong Qi

Knowledge and Action Bases (KABs) have been put forward as a semantically rich representation of a domain, using a DL KB to account for its static aspects, and actions to evolve its extensional part over time, possibly introducing new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Diego Calvanese , Marco Montali , Ario Santoso

Knowledge bases (KBs) have gradually become a valuable asset for many AI applications. While many current KBs are quite large, they are widely acknowledged as incomplete, especially lacking facts of long-tail entities, e.g., less famous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Ermei Cao , Difeng Wang , Jiacheng Huang , Wei Hu

Large-scale knowledge bases (KBs) like Freebase and Wikidata house millions of structured knowledge. Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) provides a user-friendly way to access these valuable KBs via asking natural language questions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Lingxi Zhang , Jing Zhang , Yanling Wang , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen

In this position paper, we propose a new approach to generating a type of knowledge base (KB) from text, based on question generation and entity linking. We argue that the proposed type of KB has many of the key advantages of a traditional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Wenhu Chen , William W. Cohen , Michiel De Jong , Nitish Gupta , Alessandro Presta , Pat Verga , John Wieting

We describe a novel way of representing a symbolic knowledge base (KB) called a sparse-matrix reified KB. This representation enables neural modules that are fully differentiable, faithful to the original semantics of the KB, expressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-17 William W. Cohen , Haitian Sun , R. Alex Hofer , Matthew Siegler

During the past few decades, knowledge bases (KBs) have experienced rapid growth. Nevertheless, most KBs still suffer from serious incompletion. Researchers proposed many tasks such as knowledge base completion and relation prediction to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Zihao Fu , Yankai Lin , Zhiyuan Liu , Wai Lam

Incorporating multiple knowledge sources is proven to be beneficial for answering complex factoid questions. To utilize multiple knowledge bases (KB), previous works merge all KBs into a single graph via entity alignment and reduce the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Minhao Zhang , Yongliang Ma , Yanzeng Li , Ruoyu Zhang , Lei Zou , Ming Zhou

Knowledge bases (KBs) about notable entities and their properties are an important asset in applications such as search, question answering and dialogue. All popular KBs capture virtually only positive statements, and abstain from taking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Hiba Arnaout , Simon Razniewski , Gerhard Weikum , Jeff Z. Pan

Pre-trained language models (LMs) have been shown to memorize a substantial amount of knowledge from the pre-training corpora; however, they are still limited in recalling factually correct knowledge given a certain context. Hence, they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Ruibo Liu , Guoqing Zheng , Shashank Gupta , Radhika Gaonkar , Chongyang Gao , Soroush Vosoughi , Milad Shokouhi , Ahmed Hassan Awadallah

Question generation from a knowledge base (KB) is the task of generating questions related to the domain of the input KB. We propose a system for generating fluent and natural questions from a KB, which significantly reduces the human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Linfeng Song , Lin Zhao

Directly reading documents and being able to answer questions from them is an unsolved challenge. To avoid its inherent difficulty, question answering (QA) has been directed towards using Knowledge Bases (KBs) instead, which has proven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Alexander Miller , Adam Fisch , Jesse Dodge , Amir-Hossein Karimi , Antoine Bordes , Jason Weston

With the rapid growth of knowledge bases (KBs) on the web, how to take full advantage of them becomes increasingly important. Knowledge base-based question answering (KB-QA) is one of the most promising approaches to access the substantial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Yuanzhe Zhang , Kang Liu , Shizhu He , Guoliang Ji , Zhanyi Liu , Hua Wu , Jun Zhao

Knowledge Bases (KBs) find applications in many knowledge-intensive tasks and, most notably, in information retrieval. Wikidata is one of the largest public general-purpose KBs. Yet, its collaborative nature has led to a convoluted schema…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Fabian Suchanek , Mehwish Alam , Thomas Bonald , Lihu Chen , Pierre-Henri Paris , Jules Soria

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to answer natural language questions based on facts in knowledge bases. A typical approach to KBQA is semantic parsing, which translates a question into an executable logical form in a formal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jinxin Liu , Shulin Cao , Jiaxin Shi , Tingjian Zhang , Lunyiu Nie , Linmei Hu , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

Probabilistic programming is a rapidly developing programming paradigm which enables the formulation of Bayesian models as programs and the automation of posterior inference. It facilitates the development of models and conducting Bayesian…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Nathanael Nussbaumer , Markus Böck , Jürgen Cito

Although knowledge bases play an important role in many domains (including in archives, where they are sometimes used for entity extraction and semantic annotation tasks), it is challenging to build knowledge bases by hand. This is owing to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Osman Din